Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 38

"And we can't have such a fellow as this in the summer time," replied the young man, pointing to the Snow Man; "he is capital."

Who acts: we, young man, Man · What happens: not have, reply, point, be · To what, where: fellow, Snow Man, capital · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, young man, Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 have	cc
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 fellow	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fellow	det
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 fellow	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	compound
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 replied	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pointing	punct
23	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 replied	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 Man	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Man	det
26	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Man	compound
27	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 pointing	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 capital	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 capital	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 capital	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 capital	cop
32	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	can	we	such fellow		time	as this	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the young man					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	point	gerund	the young man not said here		the Snow Man			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	Man	capital				tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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